The Royal Navy has been considering a Rolls Royce-powered version of the Chance Vought F-8 Crusader as an interim replacement for existing interceptor equipment pending availability of the P. 1154

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But they were not supersonic. The Whale was a gentle fat fellow of aircraft. The Crusader was quite tricky to land. Recently wrapped my mind around losses of the French ones. Well... 42 bought, 26 crashed.

But they were not supersonic. The Whale was a gentle fat fellow of aircraft. The Crusader was quite tricky to land. Recently wrapped my mind around losses of the French ones. Well... 42 bought, 26 crashed.

Question regarding this. I've contacted an artist to make a sideview of this variant in RN livery, wih a few variations in equipment, but would the RN version have had two or four 20 mm cannons? The trainer version deleted the left-hand cannons to make room for displaced avionics, but all the art for this projects seems to indicate that the RN plane would have had four 20 mm cannons.

Can anyone shed light on this?

Also, my google-fu in this isn't very good. How much larger in diameter would both intake and exhaust have been for the Spey engine?